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THE PILOT, Southern Pines and Aberdeen. North Carolina
Friday, July 19, 1935.
THE PILOT
Published each Friday by
THE PILOT, Incorporated,
Southern Pines, N. C.
NELSON C. HYDE, Editor
JTAMES BOYD STRUTHERS BURT
WALTER LIPP>LVNN
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OPPOSE DELAY IN
STATE LIQUOR CONTROL
Louis Graves, editor of the
Chapel Hill We«kly, thinks
that in the face of the returns in
the 17 counties of the state
which have voted on liquor con
trol, North Carolina should not
be made to wait two years be
fore making it statewide. With
but one of the 17 voting dry,
Edgecombe and Wilson voting
ten to one, New Hanover eight
to one, Martin, Halifax and
Vance five to one, the others
three or four to one for control,
the count shows an overwhelm
ing public sentiment for legal
liquor stores in preference to
the present bootleg traffic, he
says.
Six of the 17 counties have re
versed their p<ositions in the
1933 repeal referendum, and in
the 10 counties that voted for
repeal then the wet vote shows
increases ranging from 300 to
2,400.
So there can be no doubt of
the wet tide in North Carolina.
Control is favored not only bj’
rock-ribbed wets but also by a
great number of citizens who
would like to have real prohibi
tion but have wearied of imag
inary prohibition. These citi
zens realize that, with liquor
being sold legally in the neigh
boring states and brought across
the borders with
in the summer time, how Char-1
lie Picquet manages to keep pro
viding the best of pictures for
the people of the Sandhills. It is
distinctly obvious that he must
lose monej^ during our dull sea
son. He must be sacrificing his
pocketbook to uphold his repu
tation for good entertainment,
which makes him the sort of
genial host to the community
that he has always been, from
the time of the old Sandhills
Fair at Pinehurst,
The Pilot often wonders if the
people appreciate what this en
tertainment means here in sum
mer. There is little enough to do.
The Tax Confusion
fore, is not in the tax rates. The
trouble is in the expenditures and in
the fact that business is only parti-
BY WALTER LIPPMAN : to add to the burden of a few thous-, recovered. A recovery which
There is yet no evidence that the and individuals without lightening in
Administration has any clear idea of the least the burden on the national
what it wants to do about the tax finances. Burdensome taxation that
program. The President, in his mes-! does no one any good is just stupid eventual revision of the tax sys-
sage of June 19, put all his empha- and arbitrary. j jg desirable and necessary as a
sis upon a better distribution of I 'j'he only wholesome way to impose I matter of a larger public policy. It
wealth and economic power. Only in new taxes is to impose them as part i should include more steeply gradu-
will also, without raising the
rates, increase the revenues.
tax
ated income and inheritance taxes.
But these new rates should be imbed-
one clause did he refer to the bud-, of ^ comprehensive plan to bring the
get and then only to say that the in- budget into balance. Opinion is di-
heritance taxes would ‘‘incidentally yided as to whether it is necessary or | ded in an income tax system which
assist in our approach to a balanced vvise to balance the budget at once, covers at least as large a proportion
budget.” But the latest reports from jf the budget id to be balanced at! of the voters as are covered by the
the House Committee say that “we' once, then new taxes should accom-1 British income tax system. In 1931-
. must have a bill that will raise sub- pany retrenchments. To add to the j 1932 there were 3.7 million persons
goodness kno\\s. What if Char-, j.gyprjue” and that this means taxes without beginning to economize j who paid income taxes in England,
lie should suddenly find^ his least $340,000,000. Which is it? not balance the budget; it will j Scotland and Northern Ireland. This
pocketb^ook wouldn t peimit oflxjntil Washington makes up its mind ^lerely produce the worst results of I was about 17 per cent of the voters
whether its primary purpose is to re- j both policies. It will not give business j in the 1931 election. That same year
distrib<.ite wealth or to balance the men and investors the confidence that 1 in the United States 1.9 million indiv-
budget, it cannot begin to legislate ^ balanced budget would give them
intelligently. Nothing but trouble can ^nd yet it will have the deflationary
come from confusing the two pur. discouraging effect that a mean-
his acting the host longer?
Southern Pines has in the Car
olina Theatre something which
no other small town in North
Carolina enjoys, a “first run”
picture house. It is a distinct as
set. We’d feel its loss severely
should it close up. Let’s go to
the movies more often. We can't
afford to risk losing the some
thing that stamps us as a town
apart. And we can’t afford to
lose anything which provides a
little avocation through the long
hot summer.
poses.
Let us suppose that the primary
object is to balance the budget. Is it
not self-evident that the time to dis
cuss new revenues is when the new
budget is presented next winter?
What is the point of discussing taxes
until it is known what the expendi-
A WORTHWHILE
I»RO.IECT
Another suggestion for the
Moore County Planning Board:
Find some way to remove those
pylons from the roadside along
U. S. Highway No. 1 between
Aberdeen and Southern Pines.
If there is any more cheap
ballyhoo-looking decoration in
the section than this array of
monuments to a lost cause we
do not know of it. Out with ’em.
ingless sacrifice involves. What could
be more dispiriting than to be taxed
drastically without making a dent on
the deficit? Taxation of this sort is
merely punitive. It hurts the income
taxpayer and helps no one else.
My own view is that no new taxes
should be imposed until after the bud-
Grams of Sand
Watch your step!
For every hundred North Carolin
ians of 18 years or older, one was
sentenced to prison or prison camp
r>ractical im- longer during the fis-
We’re having cur troubles getting
the weather properly adjusted in these
parts. The drought nearly ruined us
the forepart of the .summer, and now
the rain is going too far for comfort.
If it continues, tobacco farmers will
lose heavily, the peach crop will be
all shipped well before expectations
or desires.
A pound ot earth, taken from a
few feet of the spot on which Andrew
Johnson, after-the-war president of
the United States, was born, in Ral
eigh. is on its way to Poland, via
Chicago, to form a mound at the
grave of the late ' Marshal Joseph
Pilsudski when mixed with that of
earth from every state of the United
States and every nation of the earth.
The occasion will be the celebration
of the 15th anniversary of Polish in
dependence, a few months from now.
The request for earth from some
historic spot came to Governor Eh-
ringhaus from F. Piskorski, chair
man of the Greater Polan, Silesian
and Pomeranian Alliance, Chicago,
and was complied with by Dr. C. C.
Crittenden, secretary of the N. C.
Historical Commission.
punity, it is impossible now to year ending June 30th, a State re-
maintain even the feeble effdrt reveals,
at enforcement that has been
made hitherto.
State liquor control is bound
to come. The immediate ques
tion is: will it have to wait
upon the next regular session of
the legislature in 1937, or shall
there be a special session either
to enact a control law or to per
mit the people to express their
opinion byi ballot?
Governor Ehringhaus and
other political leaders are known
to be opposed to a special ses
sion, but the outcome of the re
cent county elections may com
pel them to change their minds.
No doubt the matter will have
to rest until the Supreme Court
has passed upon the constitution
ality of the New Hanover and
Pasquotank acts, under which
the county elections were held;
but, whatever the decision of
the court, we shall not be sur
prised if next fall the Governor
has to yield to the pressure of
public opinion and call the legis
lators back to Raleigh. If a pop
ular verdict for control is inevi
table—and the result of the re
cent elections certainly; indi
cates that it is—why continue
the present farcical regime two
years longer?
Although the New Hanover
and Pasquotank acts have the
merit that they brought about
a test of public sentiment, and
thereby gave a valuable impe
tus to the control movement, no
body with any regard for the
welfare of the state as a whole
is satisfied with the hodge
podge situation that now pre
vails. One important objection
to this legislation is that it pro
vides no revenue for the State.
Another is that, by adding a new
legal traffic across county lines
to the existing bootleg traffic,
it increases lawlessness. What
North Carolina ought to have is
a legal liquor store plan like Vir
ginia’s. The record of tax collec
tions in the Old Dominion justi
fies the expectation that, with
a similar plan, North Carolina
will add to its annual revenue
around five or six million dollars.
Our opinion is that state li
quor control should not be de
layed for two years, and it is
hoped the Governor will call the
legislature into special session.
There is much food for thought
in Mr. Graves’ editorial.
tures are to be? The whole purpose ge(. jg presented to Congress next win
ter. That budget ought, I believe, to
contain a definite program to reduce
the deficit drastically next year and
to end it soon thereafter. Such a pro
gram depends upon reducing the cost
of relief and reducing the cost of re
lief depends primarily on putting the
unemployed back to work in private
industry. Now when this problem is
examined, it will appear, I believe,
that given the recovery necessary to
absorb a substantial part of the un
employed, the present tax rates will
yield very large revenues.
It is not generally realized that the
present tax rates are already produc
ing larger revenues than the govern
ment received in any year from 1923
to 1928. They were nearly 80 per cent
larger this year than in ‘’932; they
have produced S3.70 this year for
every $2.10 they produced in 1932.
The trouble with the budget, there
of a budget is to enable the country
to consider its expenditures in rela
tion to its revenues and its revenues
in relation to its expenditures. When
a budget is in balance or is being
balanced, the first rule is that no
money must be appropriated for
which revenues are not provided. It
is no less contrary to orderly budget
practice to raise revenues which
have no relation to expenditures. It
leads to such absurdities as the sug
gestion that the government must im
mediately have $340,000,000 more to
reduce a prospective deficit of over
$4,000,000,000 Why $340,000,000?
Would a deficit of $3,660,000,000 be in
any real sense different from a def
icit of $4,000,000,000?
■nie proposed new revenues will not
balance the budget or bring the bal
ance into sight. The only effect, there
fore, of imposing new taxes now is
iduals had taxable returns They con
stituted less than 5 per cent of the
voters in the 1932 election.
An income tax system set up so
that not more than one voter in
twenty pays a tax, that not more
than one voter in ten even files a re
turn, is a dangerous one to invoke for
the purpose of breaking up large for
tunes. It is wide open and without
defenses against extravagance and the
squandering of the large accumula
tions of the nation’s capital. Those
large accumulations ought eventual,
ly to be taken out of private hands.
But they cannot safely be entrusted
to a legislature elected by a popula
tion which is not conscious that it
pays taxes An electorate containing
10 million Income taxpayers may hope
to redistribute Income without de
stroying capital, but an electorate in
which income taxpayers are a negli
gible number is under constant prov
ocation to squander capital on current
political expenditures.
In short, we may conclude, I think,
(1) that new taxes for revenue should
not be considered apart from a bud
get which retrenches and (2) that
new taxes to redistribute wealth
should not be considered apart from
new taxes to redistribute responsibil
ity among a very much larger num
ber of income taxpayers. Since Con.
gress is not now ready to deal with
either question in this fashion, this is
not the time to legislate.
(Copyrisrht, 103B, for The Pilot)
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DO WE APPRECIATE
OUR MOVIE FARE?
One often wonders, on a visit
to Southern Pines’ movie house
Governor Ehringhaus does not see
any reason yet for calling a special
session of the General Assembly and
will not call one unless it is absolute
ly necessary, he intimates. He is not
sure the federal legislation on social
security, old age penion and unem
ployment insurance, will require a
session, but indicates that it must be
imperative before he does call law
makers back. Local papers and oth
ers have been agitating special ses
sions, first to take care of the mud
dled liquor law situation, and now to
meet requirements in the social se
curity program already passed by the
national House. But Governor Eh
ringhaus is the only man who can
call the session, and he does not want
it. The legislators could take up and
dispose only of those matters for
which it would be called, but it does
not even have to consider those and
may do anything else it’s fancy
might suggest. Governors have been
leary of special sessions for a long
time, because the Governor has no
control over a General Assembly,
once he calls it together.
>L\RRL\GE LICENSES
"YOU BET IM BUYING
A FORD V’8 a/tcl •
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JL fine car performance at low cost. Q. Next, because of the Ford safety
features—welded, all-steel body, safe mechanical brakes, safety glass all
around at no extra cost and 6.00 x 16-inch air balloon tires. \^hy, the
extra value features at no extra cost in the Ford amount to a good many
dollars. QI like its big car roominess, its style and its ‘luxury car' com*
fort. You ride cradled between the axles on a 1231/^-inch springbage.
Best of all, I like Ford V-8 economy. The 1935 Ford V-8 is the best car
Ford ever produced and the most economical. It's got everything I could
want in a modern car. You bet I'm buying a Ford V-8.”
ANU l i‘. F O.B.
Uhruon Ka»r
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ivcrik«l Ordii Co.
The Authorired
I’ioftDce I'ltta
Marriage licenses have been issued
from the office of the Register of
Deeds of Moore county to the follow
ing; F. E. Wishart of Lumberton and
Hallie Elizabeth Freeman of Aber
deen; Curtis Deese of High Point and
Mary Belle Atkins of Carthage.
• • •
YOU BET HE IS BUYING
A FORD V'B an^
'T AM NOT 80 much interested in what’s under the hood— though, of
i course, I know a V-8 engine gives smoother performance. What I want
is a car that's easy to handle. You can drive the Ford V-8 with your finger
tips and so little eflFort is required on the brakes. It is really fun to drive
the Ford V-8. QI want a car that gets you there and back without trouble
and I want a car that’s comfortable in the back seat too, because the chil
dren and I often ride there. Fords have always been dependable and as for
comfort and roominess, the new Ford V-8 rides like the most expensive
cars. Ql appreciate their thoughtfulness in providing an all-steel body and
safety glass all around—every mother does. Ol waut a car that’s correctly
and beautifully styled inside and out and the Ford V-8 certainly suits me
Aere. QThey tell me Mr. Henry Ford says the Ford V-8 is not only the
best Ford ever built but the most eco.;)omical^and that’s enough for me.
QYou bet Jim ia going to buy a Ford V-8.”
H. A. Page, Jr., Motor Co., Aberdeen
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